Sales & Trade Finance Analyst

Nissin Foods • Gardena, CA

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About The Position

The Sales & Trade Finance Analyst plays a significant role in co-piloting of the US sales organization, in both delivery of financial results, but also overall improvement within spending efficiencies as well. This role is expected to help the VP of Finance co-pilot both the internal and external sales teams in meeting and exceeding financial objectives. Further, this role plays an important part of improving the trade spend effectiveness and overall improvement of the trade spend process, controls and reporting KPIs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting from four-year college or university.
• 2+ years of finance or accounting experience in a CPG manufacturing environment with knowledge of trade.
• Basic understanding of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including GAAP and IFRS.
• Ability to understand and manage multiple customer trade strategies.
• Comfortable with multiple automated financial and accounting reporting systems, Excel, Power point and database, complex ERP, preferably Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Knowledge of leveraging diplomacy skills to gain cross-functional alignment while working with internal and external business partners.
• Knowledge of process improvement, pricing, forecasting, best practice, and customer services.
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ERP system such as Business Central or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Trade Promotion Management (TPM) systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as financial co-pilot to the US sales team, providing insights and financial analytics to drive growth for the function.
• Act as single point of contact on sales related KPIs and trade spend/accruals.
• Develop business models that support the assessment and underlying valuation of potential opportunities as relate to in-store opportunities.
• Proactive identification and analysis of business issues and opportunities, including recommendations for future actions.
• Partner with Sales, Customer Marketing and Category Management groups to support and roll out ROI models and best practices to evaluate the effectiveness of promotional activities to drive growth.
• Provide in-depth financial analysis related to key strategic initiatives as well as tactical initiatives as determined by the external market (benchmarking).
• The role should expand the current boundaries of analytical thinking of the sales managers and continually challenge financial assumptions and business modeling to further enable growth.
• Serve as point of contact for Demand Planning on integrated business planning process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees